{"id":178019,"date":"2024-08-06T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T19:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-south-east-shunned-endbadgovernance-protest-igbo-leaders\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T19:47:07","slug":"nigeria-why-south-east-shunned-endbadgovernance-protest-igbo-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-south-east-shunned-endbadgovernance-protest-igbo-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Why South-East Shunned #endbadgovernance Protest &#8211; Igbo Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The protest, which began on Thursday, was billed to last until 10 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Igbo leaders have given reasons why South-east residents shunned the ongoing nationwide protest against economic hardship in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Igbo is an ethnic group dominant in Nigeria&#8217;s south-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>The protest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The ongoing #EndBadGovernance protest, which began on Thursday, was billed to last until 10 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">It has been ongoing across states in five of the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.adsense-outer-ad-container.adsense-responsive-outer-ad-container.responsive-aans-view-a-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">PREMIUM TIMES <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/regional\/ssouth-east\/719750-empty-roads-as-south-east-residents-shun-nationwide-protest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a><\/strong> that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408060500.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The protest, which began on Thursday, was billed to last until 10 August. Igbo leaders have given reasons why South-east residents shunned the ongoing nationwide protest against economic hardship in Nigeria. Igbo is an ethnic group dominant in Nigeria&#8217;s south-east. The protest The ongoing #EndBadGovernance protest, which began on Thursday, was billed to last until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,49207,10548,4381,257,4687,393,2194,30679,254,14446],"class_list":["post-178019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-endbadgovernance","tag-igbo","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-protest","tag-shunned","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southeast"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}